Trained in biology, Daniel Aureliano Newman researches and teaches modern and contemporary literature, with a focus on Literature & Science and narrative theory. His research has appeared in several literary and scientific journals including Style, Journal of Narrative Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature, Oikos and American Journal of Botany.

• List of illustrationsAbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Bildung, Biology and the Narrative Structure of DevelopmentChapter 2. A Portrait of the Artist as a ‘Biologist in Words’: Language, Epiphany and Atavistic BildungChapter 3. Mendelian Inheritance, ‘Eternal Differences’ and Entropy in Howards EndChapter 4. ‘Tampering with the Expected Sequence’: Heterochrony and Sex Change in OrlandoChapter 5. Anachrony, Neoteny and the ‘Education of an Amphibian’ in Eyeless in GazaChapter 6. Beginning again: Darwin’s Caterpillar from George Eliot to BeckettConclusionBibliographyIndex

Trained in biology, Daniel Aureliano Newman researches and teaches modern and contemporary literature, with a focus on Literature & Science and narrative theory. His research has appeared in several literary and scientific journals including Style, Journal of Narrative Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature, Oikos and American Journal of Botany.

• List of illustrationsAbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Bildung, Biology and the Narrative Structure of DevelopmentChapter 2. A Portrait of the Artist as a ‘Biologist in Words’: Language, Epiphany and Atavistic BildungChapter 3. Mendelian Inheritance, ‘Eternal Differences’ and Entropy in Howards EndChapter 4. ‘Tampering with the Expected Sequence’: Heterochrony and Sex Change in OrlandoChapter 5. Anachrony, Neoteny and the ‘Education of an Amphibian’ in Eyeless in GazaChapter 6. Beginning again: Darwin’s Caterpillar from George Eliot to BeckettConclusionBibliographyIndex

Trained in biology, Daniel Aureliano Newman researches and teaches modern and contemporary literature, with a focus on Literature & Science and narrative theory. His research has appeared in several literary and scientific journals including Style, Journal of Narrative Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature, Oikos and American Journal of Botany.

• List of illustrationsAbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Bildung, Biology and the Narrative Structure of DevelopmentChapter 2. A Portrait of the Artist as a ‘Biologist in Words’: Language, Epiphany and Atavistic BildungChapter 3. Mendelian Inheritance, ‘Eternal Differences’ and Entropy in Howards EndChapter 4. ‘Tampering with the Expected Sequence’: Heterochrony and Sex Change in OrlandoChapter 5. Anachrony, Neoteny and the ‘Education of an Amphibian’ in Eyeless in GazaChapter 6. Beginning again: Darwin’s Caterpillar from George Eliot to BeckettConclusionBibliographyIndex